Covid-19: Over 11% of cases on Thursday (March 18) linked to prison, detention clusters


PUTRAJAYA: More than 11% of Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases on Thursday (March 18) have come from clusters linked to prisons and immigration detention centres.

In his daily Covid-19 statement, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said 99 cases came from an outbreak at the Semuja immigration depot in Serian, Sarawak.

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